Information providing method, information providing system, terminal apparatus, and storage medium storing information providing program

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EP 1 045 322 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	05.11.2003 Bulletin 2003/45

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	18.10.2000 Bulletin 2000/42

(21)	Application number: 00303070.7

(22)	Date of filing: 12.04.2000

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: G06F 17/60

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
	Designated Extension States:
	AL LT LV MK RO SI

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Priority:

14.04.1999 JP 10706199
04.10.1999 JP 28345999

(71)	Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
	Tokyo (JP)

(72)	Inventors:
	Satomi, Hiroshi, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Tokyo (JP) Masukawa, Akihiro, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Tokyo (JP) Kasai, Kenji, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Tokyo (JP) Fukunaga, Shinji, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Tokyo (JP) Inoue, Atsushi, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Tokyo (JP) Ito, Kosuke, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Tokyo (JP) Izumi, Jiro Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken (JP)

(74)	Representative: Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis et al
	BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court, High Holborn London WC1R 5DH London WC1R 5DH (GB)

(54)	Information providing method, information providing system, terminal apparatus, and storage medium storing information providing program

(57) An information providing method, information providing system, terminal apparatus, and storage medium storing an information providing program, which enable to extract actually desired information and appropriately extract information desired next, are provided. A predetermined code is input from a P service terminal (100). A P service server (200) searches the first database for first information corresponding to the code and extracts the information. When a predetermined condition is satisfied, second information is searched for from the second database and extracted. The extracted second information is attached to the first information. The first information or the first information having the second information is returned to the P service terminal (100).

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